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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,777 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 89
ABOUT 35 miles east of Glen Innes lies the now well-known Bear Hill field, and as many thousands of pounds of Newcastle capital are invested in these claims a few members of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The committee of management of the Miners' Association met in the Rouse Hotel yesterday, Mr. James Thomson, the president, occupying the chair. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Large quantities of gold, including several nuggets of fair size, continue to be found at Ashburton. About 400 men are there, most of whom are doing well…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN adjourned meeting of the Lambton miners was held on the park yesterday morning. Mr. R. Mooney presided, and there was a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON Wednesday.—Seventeen hundred tons of English coal are being shipped here for the Melbourne Gas Co…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The coal miners at the Mount Nicholas and Cornwall mines have struck work, but the dispute was purely local, and is likely to be speedily settled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GENERAL meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the Cannon-street Hotel, London, E.C., on August 6. Sir James Fergusson, M.P., in moving the adoption of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From a paragraph in the Australian Star of Wednesday, reproduced in the Newcastle Herald to-day, it would appear that the Railway Commissioners had caused to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Mining and Metallurgical Exhibition in the Crystal Palace closes on October 11, the directors finding themselves unable to keep the display…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining affairs were quiet yesterday, the only noticeable development being the distribution of the first strike pay. The miners employed in the West Burwood Colliery did…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Henry Harper was proceeded against by John Mackenzie, Examiner of Coalfields, on information, charging him that, as the agent for the Port Waratah Colliery Company, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first ordinary general meeting of this company was held on Friday afternoon at the company's office, Elizabeth-street, Sydney. Mr. Alexander Brown in the chair. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE miners employed at the West Burwood Colliery held a meeting on Saturday. After some discussion re the selling price of coal, it was resolved to send a deputation to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Government Geologist of New South Wales, and Mr. Rosewarne, who occupies a similar position under the South Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The executive of the Miners' Association having granted permission to Mr. J. C. Ellis to obtain coal for the steamer Jubilee, work will in all probability be resumed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following letter was posted at the Exchange yesterday:— "In a press telegram from Newcastle, published in the S. M. Herald, it is stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday the strike pay was distributed in the various miners' lodges, the members who have been out since Thursday, August 28th, receiving £2 each. The total sum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following coal circulars, under their respective dates, are to hand by the San Francisco mail:— July 19th: During the week the arrivals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Saturday.—A national miners congress, sitting in Germany, has adopted a petition in favour of the eight-hour system for the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rich finds continue to be made at Broken Hill at the Console mine. During the week, ore, containing upwards of 20,000oz of silver, has been raised, and two tons,…
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